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BY JACOB MILLER 



The Comiiia of the Beast and His Prophet 
is Near at Hand. Key. l.'5:ll. 



By JACOB MILLER, 

Brentsville, Prince William County, Virginia. 



Price, 25 Cents. 



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Brentsville, March 30, 1904. 



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Tlie coming of the beast and his prophet is at hand. 

The second coming of Clirist: Is it of the future, or is it of the 
past? 

The falling away from the gospel truth already at hand. 

The destruction of Babylon by the beast. 

The destruction of the beast: His prophet cast alive into a lake 
of fire, burning with brimstone. 

The extermination of the human race from off the face of the 
earth. 

The devil and satan bound for a thousand years and cast into the 
bottomless pit till the thousand years be fulfilled. 

The reign of Christ upon the earth with his resurrected saints a 
thousand years. This is the first resurrection. 

The resurrection of the wicked after the thousand years' reign of 
Christ upon the earth with his resurrected saints. 

A pitched battle between the wicked resurrected spirits Gog and 
Magog and the saints of the beloved city: Fire from heaven de- 
stroys them. 

The devil cast into tl^e lake of fire and brimstone, where the 
beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and 
night forever. 

Great white throne and him that sat upon it, from whose face the 
earth and heaven fled away; and there was no place found for them. 

The f'nal judgment of the wicked; death and hell; cast into the 
lake of fire and brimstone. 

A new heaven and earth, for the first heaven and earth were 
passed away. There was no sea 

The foundation of the earth and the foundation of the world : 
Are they one and the same, or two different foundations ? 

When the unclean spirit was gone out of the man why was the 
man lost? 



Some time ago, in the latter part of August, 1902, I visited the 
cemetery at Beallsville, Montgomery County, Maryland. Wliile I 
was walking among those graves and reading the various inscrip- 
tions on the tombstones, as well as the previous reading of many in- 
scriptions in cemeteries elsewhere, I came to the conclusion that 
some had gone to heaven and others are expected to after awhile, 
according to the inscriptions. This is a mistake, for there is no 
one who can enter heaven until after the day of general resurrection 
of the dead, for Christ's spirit after his death, as he told the thief 
on the cross, went to Paradise, and his body was put into a tomb. 
The seal thereof was sealed with the seal of the Roman government, 
but notwithstanding the Jews' precautions, the spirit of Christ re- 
entered his body the third day and his body arose from the grave. 
He was seen by his disciples, and went in and out with them, and 
ate and drank with them forty days. After the forty days he as 
cended into heaven; so it is with his disciples. He told his disci- 
ples to follow him in the way he himself went and that they them- 
selves knew the way. John 14: 4. And whither I go ye know, and 
the way ye know. Dear reader, if you are a disciple of his you 
know the way to heaven, and you know, too, that you are going to 
paradise until the first resurrection, when your soul and body are re- 
united; and you reign with Christ a thousand years upon this earth 
after the resurrection of the wicked and the judgment day into the 
new heaven and earth. Revelation 21:1. And I saw a new heaven 
and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed 
away; and there was no sea. 

While I was there thinking and studying about the people in the 
graves I thought of the vision of Ezekiel. Ezekiel 37: 1-15. The 
Lord carried him in the spirit of the Lord unto the valley full of 
bones: the Lord caused me to pass by them round about, and behold 
there were very many in the valley, and lo they were dry. In verse 
4 he is told to prophesy unto them to hear the word of God. Verse 
5. I will cause breath to enter unto you and ye shall live. Verse 14 
tells them that he will bring them back into their own land. 

As I said before, while I was studying about the people buried 
there the question arose in my heart — Will the resurrection of the 
righteous and the wicked be at one and the same time, or at different 
times? When I reached home I searched the scriptures: turning to 
Revelation, I found at the end of the nineteenth chapter that all 
mankind were slain from off the face of the earth by the King of 
Kings and Lord of Lords. There will be no one left but the King 
of Kings and Lord of Lords and satan. In Rev. 20: 1-4 we read 
that satan is bound v/ith a great chain, and is bound for a thousand 
years and cast into the bottomless pit, shut up and a seal set upon 



hini; that he slioiild deceive the nations no more till the thousand 
years should be fulfilled, and after that he must be loosed a little 
season. Verse 4. And 1 saw thrones and they sat upon them, and 
judgment was given unto them This is the promise Christ made to 
his apostles. Matthew 19: 28. And Jesus said unto them, verily I 
say unto you, that ye which have followed me in the regeneration, 
when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall 
sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Not 
only to the twelve apostles, but the promise was made unto all his 
followers. And every one that has forsaken houses, or brethren, 
or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my 
name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit ever- 
lasting life. This promise of everlasting life they will receive after 
the heavens and the earth pass away, and this is the promise he made 
to his followers, and in due time they will receive it, for he is faithful 
to all his promises. The first part of these promises will be fulfilled 
upon this earth, when Christ will set up his kingdom upon the earth. 
He will reign with his resurrected saints a thousand years. This is 
the time his saints will receive a hundredfold. They receive it be- 
fore the heavens and the easth pass away. After the heavens and 
the earth pass away they receive everlasting life, when there will be 
a new heaven and a new earth. Latter part of the founh verse of 
the twentieth chapter of Revelation reads: There are some who had 
not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received 
his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and 
reigned with Christ a thousand years. Those of the latter part of 
verse 4 are yet in our future: they are yet to be tried by anti- 
Christ, or the beast spoken of in Revelation 13: 16-18. Verse 16 
reads: And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free 
and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their fore- 
heads. Verse 17. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that 
had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 
Verse 18. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count 
the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his num- 
ber is six hundred threescore and six. John, in Rev. 9: 11, gives 
his name in the Hebrew tongue Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue 
hath his name Apollyon, and most of the English commentators 
give it as Napoleoni, the letters of which given by number will 
bring about the six hundred threescore and six. The first beast 
spoken of in the thirteenth chapter of Revelation was Napoleoni, 
whose head was wounded at the battle of Waterloo. His sin of blas- 
phemy found him out. It is said that the blood of that battle field 
was to the horses bridles. The first beast arose out of the sea of 
great commotion of politics and tumults of wars for many years. 
Napoleon was raised from a swineherd to be the Emperor of France, 
but like Pharaoh, he opposed God's people. Revelation 13: 7. And 
it was given unto them to make war with the saints and to overcome 



them. And power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and 
nations. Verse 8. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship 
him, whose names are not written in the book of Hie of the Lamb 
slain from the foundation of the world. The second beast spoken 
of will no doubt be the offspring of the first, whose wound will be 
healed again and become a greater monarchy than it was ever 
before. 

There is no telling what may happen in twenty-five years from now. 
Great things have been achieved within the last fifty years. All 
signs are to be seen of his near approach. Paul speaks of it in 
II Thessalonians 2:2. That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be 
troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, 
as that the day of Christ is at hand. This day of Christ has refer- 
ence to the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem when Christ 
came to execute judgment upon the ungodly Jews, because they re- 
ceived him not as b^ing the promised Messiah. We will take this 
up and talk about it in order that you may understand. In verse 
3 he says: Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day 
shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man 
of sin be revealed as the son of perdition. Here we find Paul speak- 
ing of two different men. The one is Christ. His day was at hand; 
the restoration of the Jews had been fulfilled; the remnant had been 
saved to the number of one hundred forty and four thousand. Rev- 
elation 7: 1-9. After that John beheld, in verse 9, a great mul- 
titude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, 
and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the 
Lamb. The destruction of the temple and Jerusalem, and the de- 
struction of the Jews as a nation, to be scattered among all nations, 
could not be accomplished until the restoration of all things; the 
preaching of the gospel of the kingdom in all the worla for a witness 
unto all nations, and then shall the end come. 

Paul tells us in Romans 10; 18: But I say, have they not heard? 
Yes verily, their sound went out into all the earth, and their words 
unto the ends of the world. Colossians i: 6. Which is come unto 
you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also 
in you, si nee the day ye heard of it, and know the grace of God in 
truth. And verse 23. If ye continue in the faith grounded and set- 
tled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye 
have heard, and wliich was preached to every creature which is under 
heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister. Thus we see that the 
gospel of Christ was preached unto every creature under the sun be- 
fore the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem. And Jesus, when 
he sent his disciples out to preach the gospel, said in Matthew 10: 23, 
But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for 
verily I say unto you, ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, 
till the Son of man be come. In Matthew 16: 28. Verily I say unto 
you, there be some standing here which shall not taste of death, till 



they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. No doubt on the 
day of Pentecost he came in his kingdom to endue his disciples with 
power for the work they had before them, for in Mark 9: i it is writ- 
ten: And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that there be 
some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till 
they have seen the kingdom of God come with power. On the day 
of Pentecost the disciples received the power of the spirit by con- 
demning the Jews face to face of being the murderers of Jesus, whom 
they had crucified, as Peter told tliem in Acts 2: 36. Therefore let 
all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same 
Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. We read that 
they were pricked at heart at the bold accusation. They saw the 
kingdom with power. Luke 9: 27. But I tell you of a truth, there 
be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see 
the kingdom of God. John 3: 5. Jesus answered, verily, verily, I 
say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he 
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John 3: 3. Except a man 
be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Peter, in his 
sermon on the day of Pentecost, foretells the destruction of the Jew- 
ish nation. Acts 2: 16-20. But this is that which was spoken by 
the prophet Joel; and it shall come to pass in the last days, saith 
God, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and 
your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, 
and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on 
my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my spirit, and they 
shall prophesy: And I will show wonders in heaven above, and 
signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, 
before that great and notable day of the Lord come. These verses 
of scripture have reference to the Jewish religion, for it was darken- 
ing over sins. Christ left the temple and left it desolate unto them. 
John 11: 47, 48. Then gathered the chief priests and Pharisees a 
council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. 
If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Ro- 
mms shall come and take away both our place and nation. Here 
we can see the working of mankind, as when a lot of educated fools 
get together they counsel together and acknowledge the truth to 
themselves, but in public they deny it. So with thest Jews; they 
reasoned among themselves to the contrary for their own good; they 
fought Christ because they feared the Romans would take their tem- 
])le and their city; but by fighting Jesus they fought their own lives, 
for in him alone is immortality and everlasting life. If you fight 
Him you fight your own self. Accept his truth; the truth shall make 
you free. The way of God is so plain that even the Pharisees could 
understand it, as much as they were opposed to truth. So it is in 
these days; men cOme together in the church and talk about the two 
roads but nobody can understand their teachings. So it was with 



those Jews, according to verse 53: Then from that day forth tliey 
took council together for to put liini to death. Luke 23: 28-31. 
But Jesus, turning unto them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep 
not forme, but weep for yourselves, and for }our cliildren. For be- 
hold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are 
the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which 
never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, 
Fall on us; and to the hills. Cover us. For if they do these tilings 
in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? Christ tells the eld- 
ers and the chief priests in Luke 22: 69: Hereafter ye shall see the 
Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God. These 
prophesies were fulfilled at the time the Jews stoned Stephen. Acts 
7: 54-56. When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, 
and gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, being full of the 
Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory 
of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. And said. 
Behold I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on 
the right hand of Cod. So we find the prophesies of Jesus fulfilled. 
But the one he told the women who followed him to the place of his 
crucifixion, where he told them not to weep over him, for the time 
would come when they would call upon the rocks and the mountains 
to fall upon them and hide them, evidently has not been fulfilled. 
I have searched the New Testament for the fulfillment thereof, but 
iio mentit^n is made of it. No doubt when Revelation was written 
all those who wrote the gospels, Acts and the epistles had died be- 
fore the fulfillment thereof except John, the beloved disciple whom 
Peter saw following. John 21: 20-23. Peter turning aVjout, seeth 
the disciple whcm Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his 
breast at supper, and said. Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? 
Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? 
Jesus saith unto him. If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that 
to tliee? Follow thou me. Then went this saying abroad among 
the brethren, that that disciple should not die. Luke 23: 30. Then 
shall they begin to say to the mountains, fall on us; and to the hills, 
cover us. John is the only writer who lived to see this scripture ful- 
filled. He not only saw it fulfilled but saw it again in his vision; 
and he tells us of his coming. Revelation i: 7. Behold, he cometh 
with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also who pierced 
him; and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. 

The twenty- fourth chapter of Matthew from beginning to end has 
references to Christ's second coming and refers especially to the 
judgment of the ungodly Jews. In studying this chapter a careful 
reading is required, for the last part is told first because the disci- 
ples asked the last part first. They came unto him to show him the 
building of the temple; in the second verse he tells them that that 
building would be destroyed; that there would not be left one stone 
upon another that shall not be thrown down. 



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As he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him 
privately, saying, tell us when shall these things be? and what shall 
be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? Jesus an- 
swered and said unto them, take heed that no man deceive you. 

It is the duty of all disciples to take heed of the deceivers, for 
there are many in the world who claim to be teachers come from 
God. We should take heed of ourselves how to study God's word 
lest we study it unto our own condemnation. 

The disciples asked their master three questions: Tell us when 
shall these things be? What shall be the sign of thy coming? What 
shall be the sign of the end of the world? After we think of these 
questions we find that the second ought to have been the first, and 
so Christ teaches them the last part first, and the thirtieth and thir- 
ty-first verses should have been first explained to them. Verse 30. 
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven 

His church at the day of Pentecost was ordained with great pow- 
er. John 14: 18-20. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come 
to you. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye 
in me, and I in you. The only sign given of the Holy Ghost being 
poured out was on the day of Pentecost. Acts 2: 2-4. And sud- 
denly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind, 
and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared 
cloven tongues as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they 
were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other 
tongues, as the spirit gave them utterance. They spoke with extra 
cloven tongues which taught them languages of different nations. 

This is the sign of the Son of man in heaven according to Mat- 
thew 24: 30. And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn the 
tribes of Israel because the glory of God is departed from them. 
They see this great miracle and their house is left desolate unto them. 
God does not accept their sacrifices, therefore they mourn. He has 
forsaken them because they forsook him first. And they shall see 
the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and 
great glory. Matthew 21: 43. Therefore say I unto you, the king- 
dom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bring- 
ing forth the fruits thereof. This Jewish kingdom of God was un- 
der a great cloud because it was to be taken from, them, as God had 
departed from it; therefore the coming of the Son of man means to 
the Jewish mind heaven or kingdom, power and glory. Power to 
save souls of men, because men glorified God for their great deliv- 
erence from sin and the power of Satan. 

He shall send his angels (apostles and disciples) with a great 
sound of trumpets and they shall gather together his elect from the 
four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Those disciples 
were endowed with great knowledge of God's laws and command- 
ments. They were men worthy to be entrusted with the oracles of 
God to preach them to all nations. They counted their own lives 



as nothing, they suffered persecutions, afflictions, hunger, shame, 
cold, nakedness and even death, but they gained the victory over 
all their foes. The more ground they gained the darker became the 
religion of the Jews, (the sun shall be turned into darkness and the 
moon into blood,) it became darker with every stej) the disciples 
gained and their government (the moon) became more bloody with 
war and rumors of war. The stars fell from heaven. Many of the 
common people of the Jewish nation embraced the religion of the 
new covenant, others falling away unto the Romans. Thus it grew 
worse for years. 

The saints looked for the return of their Lord. Even Paul 
looked for him to come before he should be called home. He gives 
a thrilling account of the coming of our Lord in I Thessalonians 4: 
15-17. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we 
which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not 
prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend 
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with 
the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we 
which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them 
in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be 
with the Lord. Notwithstanding ali these trials and troubles there 
is that great and notable day of the Lord to come. This gospel of 
the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto 
all nations, and then shall the end come. 

We have seen already that the gospel was preached unto all the 
world. The disciples of Christ going to the four corners of the 
earth, gathered God's elect, which John in Revelation says num- 
bered t'.velve thousand of every tribe of Israel. They were the rem- 
nant of whom he speaks. They had to be saved before the destruc- 
tion of Jerusalem and the downfall of the Jewish nation. Luke 21: 
20. When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then 
know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Matthew 24: 15. When 
ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by 
Daniel, the prophet, stand in the holy place. 

The Roman standardbearer was placed in the temple by Nero, 
who encompassed the city of Jerusalem and besieged it. This is 
the great and notable day of the Lord; his vengeance had come to 
]3ass udgment upon the ungodly, after the remnant was saved. 
Johnjgives the final account of the destruction of Jerusalem, under 
the fifth seal: And lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun be- 
came black as sackcloth of hair. Here the sun means the Jewish re- 
ligion, and the moon, meaning their government, became as blood. 
And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, even as a fig tree casteth 
her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind, means the 
common people who forsook their religion. And the heaven de- 
parted as a scroll when it is rolled together, means the Jewish hea- 
ven, and every mountain and island were moved out of their places, 



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means the Jewish priests and officers belonging to their dispensation. 
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, 
and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and ever)' bond man, 
and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and rocks of the 
mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and 
hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from 
the wrath of the lamb; for the great day of his wrath is come; and 
who shall be able to stand? This is what I understand as the New 
Testament's teaching of the second coming of Christ, and that the 
day of Christ is at hand. 

We now come to another day. II Thesisalonians 2: 3. Let no 
man deceive you by any means; for that day shall not come, except 
there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the 
son of perdition. He first says the day of Christ is at hand, then, 
let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come 
except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be re- 
vealed, the son of perdition, whose day cannot come until there is 
first a falling away, that is, from the gospel truth. 

John saw the church of Christ in its brightest glory. Revela- 
tion 12: I. There appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman 
clothed with the sun, and the moon under her teet, (ever changing 
moon), and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. But what do 
we see now? Revelation 17: 4-6. The woman was arrayed in pur- 
ple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold, and precious stones, 
and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations 
and filthiness of her fornication; and upon her forehead was a name 
written, mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and 
abominations of the earth, r.nd I saw the woman drunken with the 
blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus; and 
when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. We cannot 
wonder at John's great admiration when he first beheld her in her 
great glory; and now to behold her downfall; the moon under her 
feet; caught to the lowest slums of the earth, given up to adultery, 
fornication and all uncleanliness; she is torn and lacerated in 
pieces. 

It is said that the church of Christ is torn into 144 anti-Christ 
churches, each different to the other. Ravenous wolves entered the 
church and lacerated her; not sparing the flock. Acts 20: 19-30. 
Paul in his bonds going to Jerusalem sent for the elders of the 
church at Ephesus and told them how he served the Lord with all 
humility of mind, with tears, and how he kept nothing back that 
was of profit to them. I have not shunned to declare unto you all 
the council of God. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to 
the flock over which the holy ghost hath made you overseers, to feed 
the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter 
in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall 



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men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after 
them. So the wolves have been tearing away by pieces from the 
true church until instead of her we have 144 babbling denomina- 
tions and none of them know what they teach. They talk at ran- 
dom to one another. I can count about twenty-five denominations, 
I know there is not one that teaches the same gospel as Christ and 
his apostles; they are all under a curse. Galatians 1: 8. Though 
we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel — let him be 
accursed. 

In Revelation John warned all churches; but alas, from a little 
unleavened evil, unrepented, so great an evil has come; as the 
churches have lost all selfrespect and shame for themselves and the 
master is ready to spew them out of his mouth for their evil doings. 

IT Timothy 3: 1-7. This know also, that in the last days peril- 
ous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, 
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, un- 
thankful, unholy. Without natural affection, truce-breakers, false 
accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, trai- 
tors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than of God; 
having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from 
such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, 
and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers 
lusts. (These false teachers go slyly into families, get the confi- 
dence and thus control the conscience and the purse of weak and 
wicked women.) Ever learning, and never able to come to the 
knowledge of the truth. Ever learning from these teachers what 
they would have them believe and do, but never able under such 
teachers to know the truth of the gospel. With such teachers the 
earth is ever upside down. Paul tells Timothy to turn from such 
away. Let not their teachings affect you by any means. Christ 
calls them blind leaders, and if the blind lead the blind they both 
will fall into the ditch. II Thessalonians 3: 6. We commend you, 
brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw 
yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after 
the traditions which he received of us. II Timothy 3: 13. But evil 
men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being 
deceived. We see from the teachings of God's word that man will 
fall away from the gospel truth and believe a lie first. 

Let us look at mankind in this our day. Go to any public or 
private gathering and what is the conversation? It is earthly alto- 
gether. The man or woman who can tell the best yarn (lie), as 
they call it, is the one sought for at all times. Even ministers of 
the gospel, if one can tell a good yarn at the church door and keep 
a congregation in an uproar till the hour of service he is more pop- 
ular than one who would undertake to lead a godly conversation. 
In short, the man who can tell the biggest lie is the one always 
sought for. Let us look at our ministry. What is their conversa- 



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tion on the public highways? Do they converse of heaven? Do 
they teach the gospel in their daily walk? Does their daily life and 
conduct show that they are followers of Christ? Is a man who con- 
tinually talks about politics and the law of the country, and reads 
the newspapers from one week's end to the other, who seeks only 
those with whom he can talk on those subjects, a follower? If any 
one approaches them on the subject of religion they excuse them- 
selves by saying I have a pressing engagement, and they are gone. 
On the other hand if you engage them in conversation on the sub- 
ject and have the better of them they soon commence to make fun 
of you in order to ease their conscience. The laymen, or members 
of churches, are no better. Go all over the country into every house 
and you wont find one out of a hundred where they will suffer you 
to talk on the subject of religion, and yet the most of them are 
church members. 

A few years ago a certain minister preached from the text Mat- 
thew 5: 20. For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall 
exceed the righteousness of the scribes and pharisces ye shall in no 
case enter the kingdom of heaven. After he read the text he com- 
menced talking: I don't know who is a scribe: I don't know who is 
a pharisee; I don't know who is a sinner; I don't know >vho is a 
christian; I don't know which way is heaven, whether it is up or 
ddwn, or to the right or left. He did not know himself, yet he put 
himself up as a teacher of righteousness. When the blind lead the 
blind they both fall into the ditch. Those preachers come to your 
house to pay you a pastoral visit; what is their conversation? If you 
are a farmer they first inquire about your garden, your chickens, 
your cows, your general crops, your neighbors, the price of coal, the 
strikes and the candidate to be voted for. That is put down as a 
pastoral visit and so reported to the conference, and that ends the 
vi it. Their preaching on Sunday has a show of godliness but their 
Sunday preaching and daily walk do not correspond. They preach 
one thing in the pulpit and practice another in daily life. They 
preach free gr,\ce in the pulpit and follow the law all the week; but 
free grace and the law wont work together. They preach that we 
must follow Christ's example. Let us look at Christ's last day ex- 
ample when the ungodly Jews made him a prisoner. Luke 22: 47- 
5 I . While he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called 
Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Je- 
sus to kiss him; Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son 
of man with a kiss? When they which were about him saw what 
would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the 
sword? And one of them smote a servant of the high priest, and 
cut off his right ear, and Jesus answered and said, suffer ye thus far, 
and he touched his ear, and healed him. This is free grace: To 
love them that hate you; do good unto them that despitefully use 
you. This act of love and kindness — or, in other words, practicing 



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vvliat he bad taught his discii)lQs — is encouraging to his followers. 
To follow in his footsteps. Let us examine those professors of relig- 
ion. What would they do if a man struck them? They enter into 
a law suit; they say our law protects religion; we have a right to de- 
fend ourselves. Not long ago I was engaged in conversation with 
a Baptist minister. I held that the law and free grace did not work 
together; the one is contrary to the other. I quoted the scripture 
Matthew 5: 39. But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil; but who- 
soever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 
And if any man sue thee at the law, and lake away thy coat, let him 
have thy cloak also. I held that it is the duty of all who start on 
the heavenward road to keep the scripture as the master has done; 
for the servant is not above his master He took the opposite stand. 
He said, I own this house and lot. Suppose some man came here 
and put a bone mill up on one side, and another put a saloon on 
the other side, do you suppose I would submit to such doings? I 
asked him what would you do? I would fight it to the last. I 
asked him how? With the law; our law protects us from such im- 
postors. I asked him what would Abraham have done in his place? 
He did not answer me, but I told him Abraham would have gone to 
those neighbors and would have said, my friends, let there be no 
dispute between us, the country is open before us. If you will go 
to the right I will go to the left, or if you go to the left I will go to 
the right. Go and do likewise. 

There are ministers who preach free grace in the pulpit, but in 
practice will not touch it with their little finger. Now they are try- 
ing to bring all denominations into union one with another. No 
doubt they will succeed in getting together all Babylon. Thus also 
with labor and capital. All are forming themselves into unions, 
and they all help the beast into his power of making man worship 
him, for the time is at hand. Mechanics can not get paying wages 
unless they join the unions. A man can not sell his own produce or 
property without a middle man. Thus everything is working by 
degrees, so that when the beast comes all he has to do is to com- 
mand that everybody shall receive his mark. Paul speaks of him in 
II Thessalonians 2: 4: Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all 
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth 
in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Again in I 
Timothy 4: 1-3. Now the spirit speaketh expressly, that in the lat- 
ter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing 
spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having 
their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and 
commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be 
received with thanksgivi ig of them which believe and know the 
truth. The Protestant and Baptist denominations always preach 
that this scripture had reference to the pope at Rome and the Cath- 
olic church. This can not be, for the pope never opposed himself 



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above God, but holds himself next to God. He believes in God as 
much as any other christian. He hopes to be saved through faith 
in Jesus Christ; he onl}' forbids the marriage of the priests and nuns 
who consecrated themselves to God. But they are deceived. H 
Timothy 3: 13. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and 
worse, deceiving and being deceived. So it is with all denomina- 
tions. But this man that Paul speaks of forbids the marriage alto- 
gether. Man will have to live as cattle; he wont allow any mar- 
riage at all, for he opposes God and God's laws; he is opposed to 
the marriage vow; what God hath joined together let no man put 
asunder; he opposes it because it is godly. Daniel pro[jhesied of 
this man of sin. Daniel 11: 37. Neither shall he regard the God 
ofhis fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any God; for he 
shall magnify himself above all. It is his aim to destroy all of God's 
commandments and abstain from meats; he has already put away to 
a great extent the use of wines and liquors. H Timothy 4:3,4. 
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; 
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, hav- 
ing itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth 
and shall be turned unto fables. This is proof enougJJ' of the falling 
away from the faith; it has no allusion to the pope; on tne contrary 
the beasts spoken of in Revalation 13: i r are the enemy of the pope, 
and all that profess religion, for he makes war against her. Reve- 
lation 17: 16 18. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon 
the beast, these shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate 
and naked, and shall cat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For 
God hath put in their heart to fulfill his will, and to agree, and give 
their kingdom unto the beast, until the word of God shall be fulfilled. 
And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth 
over the kings of the earth. John, in chapter 18, gives a full ac- 
count of the destruction of Babylon by the beast, who helped her to 
gain such power; but now he thinks hims-"lf strong enough to oppose 
her religion. He makes war with her. Read the whole chapter 
and you will see that the whole of Babylon is destroyed and that it 
includes all churches. At the end of the chapter there are no 
Christians left. x\ll those that are left are opposed to anything that 
is God or Godly. Daniel 1^:79. ^ heard the man clothed in 
linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his 
right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that 
liveth forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and 
when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy 
people. All the things shall be finished. And I heard, but I un- 
derstood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these 
things? And he said, go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed 
up and sealed till the time of the end. In the latter part of verse 7 
Daniel prophesies of this beast when he shall have accomplished to 
scatter the power of the holy people all these things shall be finished. 



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Tlie end shall (oiiie soon after all the churches be destroyed cind all 
faith be i)ut away by tlie beast and his prophet. Christ spoke of it 
in Luke iS: 7, 8. Nevertheless, when the son of man cometh, shall 
he find faith upon the earth? And the first part of this verse reads: 
And shall not God avenge his own elect which cry day and night un- 
to him, though he bear long with them? 1 tell you that he will a- 
venge them speedily. Nevertheless when the son of man cometh, 
shall he find faith on the earth? Who are they that cry unto him 
day aud night to avenge them? Revelation 6: 9, it. When he had 
opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that 
were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they 
held; and they cried with a loud voice, saying, how long, O Lord, 
holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them 
that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every 
one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet 
for a little season, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren 
that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. Those are 
the first fruits of the gospel and the remnant of Israel that was saved 
before the destruction of Jerusalem. They were told to await the 
fulfillment of their brethren that should be killed as they were by 
the beast and his prophet because they refused to worship him and his 
image. And the mark in the hand or forehead we find at the end 
of Revelation, chapter 18. There is no more faith left on the earth; 
there are no more professors of religion left; they are all killed by 
the beast, and now in chapter 19, we find great rejoicing in heaven 
over the downfall of the great whore which did corrupt the earth 
with her fornication. Verse 7. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give 
honour to him. for the marriage of the lamb is come, amd his wife 
hath made herself ready. Verse 11. And I saw heaven opened, and 
behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called faithful 
and true; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. Verses 
16-20: And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, 
King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And I saw an angel stand- 
ing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls 
that fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather yourselves together 
unto the supper of the great God; that ye may eat the flesh of kings, 
and the flesh of captains; and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh 
of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, 
both free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast 
and the kings of the eaith, and their armies gathered together to 
make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army; 
and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought 
miraclesbefore him, with v.'hichhedeceived them that had received the 
mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. Both were 
cast into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Mention is made of 
the lake of fire burning with brimstone in the following passages: 
the one just quoted and Revelation 20: 10, 14. And the devil that 



deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where 
the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and 
night for ever and ever. And death and hell (death and the grave) 
tvere cast into the lake of fire. And Revelation 21: 8 — But the 
fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and 
whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolators, and all liars, shall have 
their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which 
is the second death. This lake of fire burning with brimstone is 
better understood in our every day conversation as hell, a place of 
punishment for the wicked spirits. First I wish you to understand 
that the beast and false prophet in Revelation 19: 20, are the first 
two that are cast into the lake. Verse 20, latter part, these both 
were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Revela- 
tion 20: 10, And the devil that deceived them was cast into the 
lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and false prophet are, 
and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Revela- 
tion 19: 21: And the remnant were slain with the sword and 
are killed from off the face of the earth. There were no seed left, 
as it was, at the destruction of the old world, wlien Noah and his 
family were left for seed, but now we find that there is no seed left, 
there is no one left but Christ and Satan. In chai^ter 20: i. And I 
saw an angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottom- 
less pit, and a great chain in his hand. Verses 2 and 3. And he laid 
hold on the dragon, that old serpent which is the devil and satan, 
and bound him a thousand years; and cast him into the bottomless 
pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive 
the nations no more until the thousand years should be fulfilled. 
After that he must be loosed a little season, and shut up, and set a 
seal upon him, as he did upon the tombstone of Jesus. All his fol- 
lov/ers are chained with him, that he as well as his followers, should 
deceive the nations no more till the thousand years be fulfilled. 
Following the reign of Christ upon this earth a thi»usand years right- 
eousness shall cover the whole earth. This Christ foretold unto the 
Pharisees, in Matthew r2: 24. But when the Pharisees heard it they 
said this fellow doth not cast out devils but by Beelzebub, the prince 
of the devil. Verse 25. And Jesus knew their thoughts and said 
unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to deso- 
lation; and ever)' city or "house divided against itself shall not 
stand. Verse 26. And if satan cast out satan, he is divided against 
himself; how can then his kingdom stand? Verse 27. And if I by 
Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children (discii)les) cast 
them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. Verse 28, But if 
least out devils by the spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is 
come unto you. Verse 29. Or else how can one enter into a srong 
man's house and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? 
And then he will spoil his house. Verse 26. And if satan cast out 
satan he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom 



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stand? Christ here tells us of the impossibility (jf a kingdom to 
stand while the king is double minded, and his su'^jects or his dis- 
ciples, are at varyance with one another abusing and killing one an- 
other, as we see and hear every day of some one killed by wicked 
hands, so is satan by destroying iiis own works, Babylon. Revela- 
tion 17: 5. And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, 
Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abomination of the 
Karth. She is no doubt the Catholic Church and, she no doubt has 
brought forth her children of abomination, those who protested a 
against her doctrine and came out of her and broughi enough of her 
filthiness with them to make them abominable in the sight of God. 
All those churches that protested against the Mother of Harlots have 
turned out worse than the mother herself; therefore they are under 
the power and control of satan, and the beast and his false prophet 
will destroy them together with the Harlot. As I have said before, 
that at the end of chapter 18 of Revelation there would be no more 
faith left on the earth. Latter part of Luke 16: 8. Nevertheless, 
when the Son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth. The 
first world, or as some call it, the first millenium was destroyed be- 
cause there were not ten righteous to be found. Noah and his fam- 
ily numbered seven righteous and one wicked. What some call 
milleniums I think the Bible teaches that they are Avorlds. Hebrew 
i: 2. By whom also he made the worlds. H Peter 2: 5. And spar- 
ed not the old world. This is what I understand to be the old world 
from Adam to Abraham; the second from Abraham to David; the 
third from David until the carrying away into Babylon, and the 
fourth from the carrying away into Babylon until Christ. Thus we 
find four worlds from the creation to Christ, which embraces 4,000 
years. The fifth world was from Christ to the Reformation; the sixth 
world to 2000 years; the seventh world the reign with his resurrected 
saints a thousand years upon this earth. 

Revelntion 20: 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the 
first resurrection; on such the second death hath no power, but they 
shall be priest of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a 
thousand years. In this verse we are taught that such as have part in 
the first resurrection are blessed and holy. A holy man is he who 
is not ashamed to teach God's word wherever he goeth, and makes 
it his first duty to persuade men to forsake their sins and enter the 
kingdom of God; a holy man is he who seeks first the kingdom of 
God and his righteousness, aiul v/hose conversation is heavenly, 
whose life and conduct is Christlike, meek and lowly. Matthew 5: 
5. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth Psalms 
37: II. But the meek shaU inherit the earth and shall delight them- 
selves in the abundance of peace. The abundance of peace is for a 
thousand years. Verse 9. Evil-doers shall be cut off. Revelation 
19: 21. Evil-doers are cut off from the face of the earth (verse 16.) 
by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, but those that wait upon 



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tlie Lord, they shall inherit the earth. Revelation 20: 6. Thus we 
see that the old patriarch thought and believed in the Sabbath world 
and in the inheritance of the saints in the earth and Christ in his 
first sermon on the mount (Matthew 5: 5) told his disciples, Blessed 
are the meek for they shall inherit the earth, Luke 22: 28-30. Ye 
are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I 
appoint unto you a kingdom as my father hath appointed unto me 
That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on 
thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Matthew 26: 29. But 
I say unto you, I will not drnk henceforth of this fruit of the vine, 
until that day when I drink it new with you in my father's kingdom. 
Mark 14: 25. Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the 
fruit of the vine, uttil that day that I drink it new in the kin<idom 
of God. Luke 22: i5-r8. And he said uuto them, with desire I 
have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; for I say 
unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the 
kingdom of God. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said 
take this, and divide it among yourselves: for I say unto you, I will 
not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall 
come. Thus we find, by Christ's own words, that in the kingdom 
he speaks of there will be eating and drinking of the fruit of the 
vine: such wine as is manufactured from the fruit, not adulteiated 
with water and sugar, as it is used in the churches for communion 
service In this world we are commanded to prepare for the world 
to come. Christ set us a good example. He eat and drank wine 
as he told thegenerationamongst whom he taught. Matthew 11: 18, 
19. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, he 
hatha devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they 
say, behold, a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans 
and sinners. Wisdom is justified of her children. John was called 
a devil because he did not eat or drink. The Son of man was glut- 
tonous and a winebibber because he eat and drank wine. He did 
not abuse it by abstaining from the use of it; neither did he teach 
people toabstain therefrom, butheused it in moderation and thanks- 
giving. If we despise God's gift in this presei.t world we will hate 
it in the world to come. By Christ's own words in that kingdom he 
speaks of there will be eating and drinking of the fruit of the vine. 
Those people who educate themselves to hate the fruit of the vine 
do so to their own hurt; for they cannot enter into the kingdom be- 
cause they hate the gift of God. Therefore, if ) ou hate the gift of 
God you hate God. I Timothy 4: 3. Forbidding to marry, and 
commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be 
received v\'ith thanksgiving of them which believe and know the 
truth. There is enough proof in this scripture of truth to convince 
the most skeptical being that there will be eating and drinking. 
Whoever fights against the use of wine and strong drink fights against 
their own salvation in the kingdom of God. That kingdom spok- 



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en of will be upon the earth, where his disciples will eat and diink 
at Christ's table the same as we do at our own; for after this hca\en 
and earth passes away there will be a new heaven and a new earth 
and there will be no sea. Revelation 22: i, 2. And he showed me 
a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the 
throne of God and of the lamb. In the midst of the street of it, 
and on either side of the river was there the tree of life, which bare 
twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the 
leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. In the new 
earth and heaven there is no mention made of eating and drinking, 
as there is in the kingdom of God and Christ. There is in the new 
heaven a tree of life and a pure river for the use of the saints; but 
in the kingdom of God there is to be a table, and eating and drink 
in^ of the fruit of the vine. Revelation 20: 6. Blessed and holy is 
he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death 
hath no power. But verse 5 reads: But the rest of the dead lived 
not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first 
resurrection. We have examined the first resurrection, and found 
it to be the resurrection of the righteous. In verse 5 we read: But 
the rest of the dead lived not ag dn until the thousand years were 
finished. Who are the rest of the dead that lived not again? This 
shows that those dead lived upon this earth; but they are not resur- 
rected with those we read of in verse 4. 

They were not resurrected with them because they were not 
righteous: they were wicked people, ungodly. Therefore, they 
were chained. Verse 2: Bound him a thousand years. Verse 3. 
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and seta 
seal upon him. We thus find that the rest of the dead are shut up 
in the pit along with their leaders for a thousand years, and a seal 
set upon them that cannot be broken for a thousand years The seal 
he set upon the tomb of Christ could not hold for three days. This 
is what Chnst told the Pharisees. Matthew 12:29. Or else how 
can one enter a strong man's house and spoil his goods, except he 
first bind the strong man? And then he will spoil his house. Satan 
has been gaining strength ever since the Reformation, when the 
harlot cast her young one's children of abomination off the earth, 
which corrupted the way of the Lord more than the mother of har- 
lots herself. Yet the mother and her children are at war one with 
the other. It is this that Christ told the Pharisees. Matthew 12: 
25, 26. And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them. Every 
kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation: and every 
city or house divided againt itself shall not stand. And if satan 
cast out satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his 
kingdom stand? In Revelation t8, we find that satan is dissatisfied 
with his own work by destroying Babylon the Great and her chil- 
dren, the abominations of the earth. He suffered his subjects to 
svorship God in a hypocritical way by making Christ's command- 



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ment of no avail; but now he thinks himself strong enough to op- 
pose and exalt himself above all that is called God; he sitteth in the 
temple showing himself that he is God When he comes in his full 
power, (Revelation 13: 11) then it is that he will destroy Baby- 
lon and her children, and the Lord calls his children to come out 
of her, in 18: 4: Come out of her, my people, that ye be not par- 
takers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. God's 
people are among those denominations. There are some who will 
not bow down their knees unto their abomination; but God calls them 
out of her, that they may flee into the wilderness. Revelation 12: 6. 
Where she has a place prepared of God, that they should feed her 
there a thousand two hundred and three score days, or about three 
and a half years, the length of the full reign of the beast and his 
prophet. He will reign as long as Christ did from baptism to his 
crucifixion, about three and a half years. Christ told his disciples 
when he told them of the destruction of Jerusalem in Matthew 24: 16. 
Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains. There 
was a place prepared by God for flieir protection. So it will be 
when the beast andhisphrophet come in full power. God has pre- 
pared a place for his people in the wilderness, where they will be 
fed for the space of about three years and a half, the time the beast 
is in power. He will cause all men to have a mark either in their 
right hand or forehead. Revelation 13: 17. And that no man 
might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the 
beast, or the number of his name. 

Thus God has prepared a place for his followers in the wilderness; 
they will find good pasture; they will be marvelously fed as he did 
the children of Israel, but they will not escape his cruelty, they 
will become martyrs. Revelation 20: 4. I saw the souls of them 
that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and the word of God, 
and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither 
had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and 
they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years, but the rest of 
the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. 
This shows that those that are dead will also be resurrected and live 
again, and the second death has power upon them We find them 
after the thousand years are finished, according to verse 7: And 
when the thousand years are expired, satan shall be loosed out of 
his prison. Also his subjects or followers, as in verse 5, but the rest 
of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. 
Verse 8. And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the 
four quarters of the earth, (those nations are hie loosed or resurrect- 
ed followers; for as we have seen before at the end of the 19th chap- 
ter all nations and mankind were killed off of the face of the earth; 
there were no seed left to be fruitful and multiply and replenish the 
earth again.) Gog and Magog, (those are the kings we read about 
in the Old Testament). Ezekiel 38: 2-6. Son of man, set thy face 



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against Gog, tlie land of Magog, tlie chief prince of Meshe(^li and 
Tubal, and prophesy against him, and say, Thus saith the Lord (Jod; 
behold T am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and 
Tubal; and I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and 
I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, 
all (^f them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great comj)any 
with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords; Persia, Eth- 
iopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet; 
Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north cpiar- 
ters, and all his bands; and many people with them. 

Thus we see he was strong in his day in the Old Testamen ttime, 
and the children of Israel, and now in a few more years we see him 
again resurrected with the number of whom is as tlie sand on the 
sea, whom he gathers from the four quarters of the earth to make 
war with the resurrected saints. A last effort of satan: a pitched 
battle to gain the victory over them. Thus Gog was an accomplice 
of satan in the Old Testament as the beast and his prophet are in the 
New Testament. Rev. 19: 20. The beast was taken, and with him 
the false prophet. * * * These both were cast alive into a lake 
of fire burning with brimstone. 

The beast and his prophet were the first cast into hell, as it is 
generally understood, but the word of God calls it a lake of fire. 
As I said before the beast and his prophet were the first cast into 
the lake of fire and they were not resurrected, for they were cast 
alive into the lake of fire. Now we see the devil deprived of the 
assistance of the beast and his prophet. Gog and Magog take their 
places with the wicked resurrected to battle, the number of whom is 
as the sand of the sea. 

Thus we see, when satan is loosed, after he is bound and impris- 
oned un.der a seal that he could not break for a thousand years, he 
comes out of his prison furious; his anger at being imprisoned is out 
of all reason; he makes a desperate effort to overcome the lamb and 
his bride, and now according to verse 9 they went up on the breadth 
of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the 
beloved city. No doubt he thinks he has gained his object when he 
thus encircled the camp and the beloved city, and when he is about 
to shout for joy, thinking he has gained his end, behold! horror of 
horrors! Fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured 
them, with sore and desolate judgment: destroyed their power to do 
harm, and now, according to verse 10, the devil that deceived them 
was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the 
false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and 
ever. Here we find the words of Christ true which he spoke in 
Matthew 11: 29. Or else how can one enter into a strong man's 
house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? And 
then he will spoil his house. In Revelation 20: 10, we find again 
that Christ overpowereth satan and casts him into the lake of fire 



and brimstone along with the beast and his prophet, where satan him- 
self, as well as those whom he deceived, is punished forever and 
ever. Satan being out of the way Christ goes about to destroy his 
house. 

Verse ii. And I saw a great white throne and him that sat on 
it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away, and there 
was found noplace for them This isdifferen; from the thrones in 
verse 4, which is as follows: There were thrones and judgment was 
given unto them. But here there is but one and him that sat on it, 
the earth and heaven fled away. In verse 4 judgment was given un- 
to them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word 
of God and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, 
neithei- received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands. 
And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But in 
verse 11: And I saw a great white throne. Here is mentioned but 
one great white throne and him that sat on it; and he must be a 
great one, because from his face the earth and heaven fled away. 
This great one is God. 

I Corinthians 15: 22-28. For as in Adam all die, even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order, 
Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 
Then cometh the end. (After the reign of Christ a thousand years 
on this earth then cometh the end, when he (Christ) shall have de- 
livered np the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have 
put down all rule and authority and power. For he must reign, till 
he hath put all enemirs under his feet. The last enemy that shall 
be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. 
But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that 
he is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all 
things shall bo subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be 
subject unto him that put all things under him, that God maybe all 
in all. 

As I said above in Revelation 20: 10, we find that Christ has sub- 
dued all pov/ers and principalities and rulers of the darkness, and 
Satan and the beast, and his phrophet, are all cast into the lake of 
fire and brimstone. All powers have given way unto the power and 
ruling of Christ, and all things are subdued unto him, underhis feet, 
and now the Son himself is subject unto him that put all things un 
der him, that God may be all in all. Thus we find in verse 11 that 
the Son has delivered the kingdom to God even the Father; and now 
John says in verse 11, I saw a great white throne and him that sat 
on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away. This is 
the end which Paul speaks of in I Corinthians: Then cometh the 
end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the 
Father. And now the Father sitteth in a great white throne to 
judge the nations of the earth. And the earth and heaven fled away, 
and there was found no place for them because they are unclean in 



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his sight; therefore they disappear. Verse 12. And I saw the dead, 
small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened, and 
another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead 
were judged out of those things which were written m the book ac- 
cording to their works and whosoever's name was written in the 
book of life they were not judged, for their lives are hidden in 
Christ. Christ is the book of life; for their works are wrought in 
the sjMrit of Christ, and where the spirit of Christ is, there is free- 
dom. Romans 8: i, 2. There is therefore now no condemnation 
to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but 
after the spirit. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ hath made 
me free from the law of sin and death. Unto them is given life 
everlasting; the second death has no power over them, and the dead 
were judged out of those things which were written in the books ac- 
cording to their works. No doubt the books here referred to are 
the consciences of evil doers; their condemnation is written within 
their own hearts, for every man knows his own doings, whether good 
or evil. The books were opened for all the thoughts, feelings and 
actions of men are recorded in their hearts. Every man's heart will 
be expoed to all men; to read the evil doings of his neighbors, and 
they will be judged according to their works. Verse i8- And the 
sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell(the grave) 
and the place of departed spirits, the bottomless pit. John's de- 
scription seems rather given backward, for the sea and death and 
hell must have given up the dead for in verse 7 we read, And when 
tlie thousand years are expired satan shall be loosed OL't of his 
prison (the place of all departed, wicked spirits) All wicked spirits 
were loosed with him and were reunited with their bodies; then the 
sea must have delivered the dead bodies of those that died in the sea, 
and death and hell must have given up their dead, for in verses 8 
and 9 we read, They made war against the saints. When God 
the Father sat on the great white throne and from whose face the 
earth and heaven fled, if they had not been resurrected before the 
earth and heaven fled, how could the sea give up the dead, and 
death and hell, when there were none to be found. If they had 
not been resurrected before they would have passed away with it. 
John gives his account in the way he does because he could not 
give two accounts at once anymore than you or lean say yes and 
no in one word. It was necessary for him to give the account of 
Christ ruling over all powers and principalities and dominions and 
put them under his feet and to deliver the kingdom unto God, the 
Father. As I have said before the Son himself is subject to him 
that put all things under his f.et, that God may be all in all, and 
he must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet. 

I Corinthians 12: 26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
death. Rev. 20: 14, 15. And death and hell were cast into the lake 
of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found 



written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Oh, that 
men would stop and think of what they are doing, and where they 
are going, for life and the second death is before them. God has 
made them so plainly known unto all nations and so plain that a 
way-faring man, though he be a fool need not err therein. All can 
understnad alike if they will, for he has given us the Holy Ghost to 
teach every one of us; and it is impossible for the Holy Ghost to 
teach anything but the truth. 

John 8: 3032. As he spake these words many believed on him. 
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him; if ye continue 
in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know 
the truth and the truth shall make you free. Christ said to those 
Jews that believed on him. If ye continue in my word and do not 
falsify it by teaching divers and strange doctrines, then are ye my 
disciples indeed, and ye shall know the truth. 

If a man speaks the truth always, even to his own hurt, then ye 
shall know the truth. Paul when he stood on Mars' hill spoke the 
truth. Acts 17: 22, 23. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars* 
hill, and said, ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are 
too superstitious. For as I passed by, an i beheld your devotions, 
I found an altar with this inscription, "To the unknown God." 
AVhom therefore ye ignorant^y worship, him declare I unto you. 
So it is now in these days, you go about and cannot but see it writ- 
ten upon the altars of every pulpit of every denomination, **To the 
unknown God." The ministers thereof preach at random; they 
don't know what they talk, or what they preach, or what they believe; 
they talk of the devil and don't know where he starts from; they 
talk of the foundation of the world, and they don't know what the 
foundation of the world is; they preach it as being the foundation of 
the earth; they never ask themselves the question, Is the founda- 
tionof the earth and the foundation of the world one and the same, 
or are they two separate foundations? They talk of conversion as 
being the new birth; they talk of the church of Christ and of the 
resurrection; all these they talk of in the pulpit. II Timothy 3: 5, 
7. They have a form of godliness but denying the power thereof; 
from such turn away. Ever learning and never able to come to 
the knowledge of the truth. They study the Bible to find suitable 
texts to prove the doctrines of their different denominauional church 
es; they make fine speeches in the pulpit but you ask them in pri- 
vate conversation and they cannot give you any answer to any com- 
mon questions; they stare at you like a little child. 

The writer of this fell in company with a Catholic priest. He 
opened the Bible and laid it in the priest's lap and said. Please ex- 
plain this scripture, Matthew 6: 24 34. No man can serve two 
masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else 
he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve 
God and mammon. Did he explain it at all? No, not a word of it 



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because he was so superior that he could not lower himself to 
teach an ignorant being. All that he could get out ofhini was, 
What do you mean? I don't untlerstand you. What do you mean? 
"J mean this sir. Please explain the meaning of this scripture." 
I don't understand what you mean; and after that he went upstairs 
to see one of the family and he went out of the house without 
saying good-bye. He had come to stay to dinner butcould not face 
the word of God. Therefore if we show the devil God's word he 
will flee. James 4:7. Submit yourselves therefore unto God. Re- 
sist the devil and he will flee from you. And that was the end of 
the priest. He had no use for God's word because he had not the 
word, or in other words he had not tlie love for the word of truth. 
If he had, it would have been a great pleasure to him to meet some 
one to reason with about the way that leads to heaven. 

So it is with all ministeis; they don't like to be questioned about 
God's word in private. Whatsoever a man loveth he likes to talk 
about. If a man loves God he likes to talk about his word and com- 
mandments, and likes to learn from any one, no matter how humble 
station he is. God is no respector of persons and who art thou, oh 
man! that prefereth or esteemeth one man above another? Whatso- 
ever a man loves he likes to talk about. If a minister loves politics 
better than God's word he will talk about it all the week; if he loves 
God's word above every thing else he will love to talk and reason 
with the most humble and uneducated being. Matthew 7: 20. By 
their fruits ye shall know them. As the man of the world likes to 
talk about the laws of his country, who to vote for to get better laws 
and better times, so the disciple of Jesus will talk about and de- 
light himself in the laws and commandments, and meditate in them 
day and night. Whatever citizenship you hold, whether earthly or 
heavenly, you like to talk about it. II Thes. 2: 10. Because they 
received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 

We often hear people say I believe in such a church because it is 
so grand and the fashionable people go there; and another says, I 
like to go to such a one because they have such a grand organ; it is 
so nice to go there and hear such grand music; and again another 
says, I like such a church because my father and mother believed 
in it, and I was christened in it. And so you can go through them 
all, they like such a church from choice not from searching the word 
of God, and being persuaded by the word of truth, but from mere 
gratification of their own will, not caring anything about the will of 
(iod. John 8: 32. The truth shall make you free. What is truth? 
When Christ told Pilate of the truth he could not comprehend it. 
These are the words which passed between Christ and Pilate. John 
18: 37. Pilate therefore said unto him. Art thou a king then? Je- 
sus answered. Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I 
born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear 



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witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my 
voice. 

How did Christ bear witness unto the truth? By teaching and 
practicing what he preached. He preached the Sermon on the 
Mount — 5, 6 and 7 chapters of Matthew — and practiced every word 
of it. Matt. 5: 39, 40. But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil; 
but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the 
other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away 
thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. Christ practiced every word 
that he spoke. They smote him on the cheek, they spit on him, 
they mocked him, they took his coat and cast lots for it, they cru- 
cified him, but he never resisted their will; he prayed for them that 
despitefully used him, he prayed for his murderers on the cross. 
Luke 23: 34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them, for they know 
not what they do. Thus by practicing what he preached he wit- 
nessed unto the truth. If he could practice what he preached he 
proved to his hearers the truth of his preaching that a man could do 
what he advised them to do, and therefore he could tell men to fol- 
low him. Paul, Peter, John and Stephen and many other followers 
of Christ. Paul in writing to the Corinthians — I Epistle 11. i. — 
said, be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. And in writ- 
ing to the Romans — 9: i. — he said: I say the truth in Christ, I lie 
not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost. 

Acts 20: 18-21. And when they were come to him, he said unto 
them, ye know from the first day that I came into Asia, after what 
manner I have been with you at all seasons. Serving the Lord in 
all humility of mind; and with many tears and temptations befalling 
me by the lying in wait of the Jews. And how I kept back nothing 
that was profitable unto you, but have showed you and taught you 
publicly and from house to house. Testifying to the Jews and also 
to the Greeks, repentance toward Gcd and faiih toward our Lord 
Jesus Christ. H Cor. 4: 2. But have renounced the hidden things 
of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of 
God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending our- 
selves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. And the 
saints at Berea. Acts 17: 11. These were more noble than those in 
Thessalonica, because they received the word with all readiness of 
mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were 
so. It is the duty of every follower of Christ to study the scriptures 
every day and to meditate upon God's ways and God's command- 
ments. Psalms 119: 97. How love I thy law; it is my meditation 
all day. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than 
mine enemies; for they are ever with me. I have more understand- 
ing than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation. 
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. 
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might kee;^ thy 
word. I have not departed from thy judgments, for thou hast taught 



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me. How sweet are tliy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter tlian 
honey to my mouth! Througli thy i)recepts 1 get understanding; 
therefore I hate every false way. 

It is the duty of every man and woman to study God's word 
prayerfully; to ask God's guidance of his holy spirit and to find out 
for themselves the way he has prepared for saving his own ])eople. 

I Jolin 4: I. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits 
whether they are of God; because many false ])rophets are gone out 
into the world. Go to any place of worship; you will find a differ- 
ent spirit. There is but one name given under heaven whereby man 
can be saved, and unto that name but one doctrine is attached and 
that is truth. John 3: 5. Ye must be born again of water and the 
Spirit as Christ was. Matt. 3:16. And Jesus when he was baptized 
went up straightway out of the water; and, lo, the heavens were 
opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a 
dove, and lighting upon him. This is the born again of water by 
baptism by immeision, as Christ was, and the Spirit comes after wa- 
ter baptism. There is no other way to enter the kingdom of God. 
John 10: I, 2. Verily, verily I say unto you, he that enters not by 
the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same 
is a thief and a robber. But he that enters in by the door is the 
shepherd of the sheep. Christ entered in at the door by baptism of 
water and the Spirit, and was the first one to be baptized of water 
and the Spirit. As the scriptures teach, Romans 8: 29, he is the first 
born of many brethren. May God help us, one and all, to follow 
the truth which will make us free. 

In the time of the fourth beast there will be two witnesses stand- 
ing before the God of the earth. Revelation 11: 3-14. And I will 
give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thou- 
sand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These 
are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the 
God of the earth. And if any man w^ill hurt them, fire proceedeth 
out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man 
hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to 
shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and 
have power over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the 
earth with all plagues, as often as they will. And when they shall 
have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the 
bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome 
them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street 
of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, 
where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people, and 
kindreds, and tongues, and nations, shall see their dead bodies three 
days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in 
graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over 
them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because 
these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. And 



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after three days and an half the Spirit of life fiom God entered in- 
to them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon 
them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven 
saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heav- 
en in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. And the same hour 
was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and 
in the earthquake were slain of men even thousand: and the rem- 
nant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. In the 
same time of those two witnesses there will be seven plagues. Rev. 
i6: 1-21. And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the 
seven angels, go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of 
God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial 
upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the 
men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which wor- 
shipped his image. And the second angel poured out his vial upon 
the sea; and it became as blood of a dead man; and every living soul 
died in the sea. And the third poured out his vial upon rivers and 
fountains of waters; and they became blood. And I heard the an- 
gel of waters say, thou art righteous, O, Lord, which art, and wast, 
and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. For they have shed 
the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to 
drink; for they are worthy. And I heard another out of the altar 
say, even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judg- 
ments. And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and 
power was given unto him to scorch men with fire, and men were 
scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which 
hath power over these plagues; and they repented not to give him 
glory. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the 
beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness, and they gnawed their 
tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of 
their pains and sores, and repented not of their deeds. And the 
sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and 
the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east 
might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come 
out of the dragon's mouth, and out of the beast's mouth, and out 
of the false prophet's mouth. For they are the spirits of devils, 
working miracles, which go out to the kings of the eaith and of the 
whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God 
Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches 
and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. 
And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew 
tongue Armageddon. And the seventh angel poured out his vial 
into the air; and there came a great voice out of heaven, from the 
throne, saying, it is done. And there were voices, and thunders, 
and lightnings, and there was a great earthquake, such as was not 
since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so 
great. And the greai city was divided into three parts, and the cit- 



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ies of nations fell; and great liabylon came in remembrance before 
God, to give unto her the cuj) of the wine of the fierceness of his 
wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not 
found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every 
stone about the weight of a talent; and men blasi)hemed God be- 
cause of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding 
great. 

In this chapter John tells us of the plagues that are come to pass 
during the reign of the beast and his prophet. There are seven 
which will be sent at intervals, as they were when Moses brought the 
children of Israel out of Egypt. And because the Egyptians would 
not repent of their sins God destroyed them in the Red sea; and in 
Christ's time he showed many signs and wonders and miracles and 
cured divers diseases; such as healing the sick, the lame walked, 
blind ones received sight, lepers were cleansed, deaf ones heard, 
dead ones were raised, and the gospel was preached to poor people. 
But those Jews to whom the glorious gospel was preached rejected 
it; they would not have Christ rule over them, so he came the sec- 
ond time, about the year seventy after Christ, and destroyed their 
temple, city and nation; they will be a nation no more, forever. 

So it will be when the beast comes. God will send plagues to 
bring them to repentance, but they will not heed his warnings, so 
the King of Kings and Lord of Lords will destroy them all from the 
face of the earth. 

About a year and a half ago when I was in Montgomery County, 
Maryland, I became acquainted with a minister. I asked him two 
bible questions; one was about Matt: 12: 43-45. When the unclean 
spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking 
rest and finding none. Then he says, I will return into my house 
from whence I came out; and when he is C( me, he finds it empty, 
swept and garnished. Then he goes, and takes with him seven oth- 
er spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell 
there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even 
so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. The second was the 
foundation of the earth and the world. Eph. i: 4. According as 
he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we 
should be holy and without blame before him in love. Psalms 104: 
5. Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be re- 
moved forever. Did he answer them or try to answer either? By 
no means. This is what he did. He first looked at me and then 
said, why do you spring up of a sudden to ask such questions? where 
do you get it from? I said to him, Mr., you and I are nothing but 
lumps of clay; and as lumps of clay we don't know anything of our- 
selves unless we receive knowledge from God Only through the 
spirit of God by prayer, and study of his word can we come to the 
understanding of God's truth. He left me because he relied on his 
education, forgetting (I Cor. 3: 19.) that the wisdom of this world 



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is foolishness with God. For it is written: He taketh the wise in 
their own craftiness. 

Now let us look at these two questions. The foundation of the 
world, or what is called the world. Christ in teaching his disciples 
said (John 15: 17.) These things I command you. that ye love one 
another. If ths world hate you, ye know it hated me before it did 
you. If ye were of the world, the world would love xts own, but 
because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the 
world, therefore the world hates you. The Jews that hated Christ 
were those whom he had chosen and were from the Jewish nation. 
The Jews we know are the people who hated him and here he calls 
them the world. He tells his disciples if the world (the Jews) hate 
you ye know that it hated me before it did you. They were eye 
witnesses of the persecutions Christ received from wicked Jews, 
whom he calls the world and who at last killed him by crucifying 
him. After Christ sent the disciples out after the pouring out of the 
Holy Ghost, to gather his elect from the four winds of the earth, to 
preach the gospel to all the world before the end could come, they 
were shamefully and inconsiderately treated by those whom he called 
the world; and who had a foundation called the foundation of the 
world, and Paul says in Ephesians i. 4: According as he has chos- 
en us (Jews, or world) in him (in Christ) before the foundation of 
the world. God chose Abraham out of all the kindred of the earth 
and promised the land of Canaan to his seed for an inheritance 
when as yet he had no child, and God spake in this wise that his 
seed should sojourn in a strong land and that they should bring 
them into bondage and treat them evilly four hundred years. In 
course of time came Moses tiie deliverer, who laid the foundation of 
the world. He brought them out after he hr.d showed wonders and 
signs in the land of Egypt and the Red Sea, and in the wilderness 
forty years. This foundation John speaks of in Revelation 13: 8. 
And all those that dwell upon the earth shall worship him (the beast) 
whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain 
from the foundation of the world. 

John calls the foundation of the world the killing of the lamb 
slain at the first passover, when the children of Israel killed the lamb 
and sprinkled the door posts to save the firstborn. Paul, speaking 
of Christ's prie'^thood — Hebrews 9: 24-26 — For Christ is not entered 
into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the 
true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God 
for us; nor yet that he should offer himsu-lf often, as the highpriest 
entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; then 
must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world; but 
now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin 
by the sacrifice of himself For God so loved the world (Jews) he 
gave his only begotten son to save them. Sjieaking of the sacrifice, 
if he had to suffer every year as the highpriest did kill the lamb from 



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tlie foiii)(iation of the world, he would often have suffered or died. 
No mention is made of the killing of a lamb from the foundation of 
the earth until Abraham offered ihe heifer, a s!)e g<^at and a ram, all 
three years old. The foundation of the earth is earthly, but tiie 
foundation of the world is spiritual. 

Again Paul says, But now once in the end of the world hath he 
appeared to put away sin bv the sacrifice of himself, and for the 
world (Jewish nation) %vhom he came to save, but they rejected him 
and would not have him rule over them. Therefore, their end was 
near at hand; they were destroyed in and about the year seventy. 
Therefore, whosoever teaches that God made promise to himself 
before the foundation of the world, and teaches the foundation of 
the earth and the world to mean the same is mistaken. There is no 
scripture at all to show that God made promise to himself. The 
promise he nuide was unto Abraham and his seed. The promises 
were made not to many, but as one was predestinated to be Christ, 
the Saviour of the world, but refusing to obey him he became their 
destroyer, the end of the world. 

Matt. 12 : 43. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, the 
man is converted; he becomes a believer in Christ Jesus; his sins are 
forgiven but not remitted; this man is a fit subject to be born again 
of water and the spirit, as Christ was himself by baptism. And Je- 
sus when he was baptized straightway came up out of the water and 
lo, the heavens opened and the Spirit of God descended like a dove 
upon him. But this man, through ignorance of his own and false 
teachers neglected his duty and his heart was left empty unto him. 
He did despite unto the Spirit of God. II Peter 2: 21, 22. For it 
had been better for them not to have known the way of righteous- 
ness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy com- 
mandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them ac- 
cording to the true proverb, the dog is turned to his own vomit 
again; the sow^ that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. 

Dear Reader: I have endeavored to explain to you the scriptures 
to the best of my knowledge. If there should be anything which 
you do not comprehend, write to me, with addressed, stamped en- 
velope, and I will gladly answer any questions, or make explana- 
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